40 Days on Anti-Racism: Taxes and Indigenous Peoples: Debunking Who Pays

Published On: November 2, 2023

Day 24 of 40 Days of Engagement with Anti-Racism: Delores Kenny debunks the tax dollar and “handout” myths that continue to be used to stereotype Indigenous people.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Our Identities: Places of Oppression, Places of Power

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 23 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Adele Halliday reflects on how she can experience profound systemic racism and sexism and yet can also carry considerable power and privilege because of the many other identities she holds.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Unlearning Colonial Whiteness

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 22 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Becca Whitla notes that unless we confront racism as a social construction that was used to facilitate colonial expansion, we are not really getting at its root causes.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Finding Other Paths to Racial Justice

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 21 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Michiko Bown-Kai, moving from a big city to a small town has meant imagining new ways to remain committed to the ongoing work of racial justice.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: A White Teenager’s Anti-Racism Exposure and Education

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 20 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Matthew Tyhurst recounts how the testimony of a racialized person his own age helped change the way he looks at the world.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Learning to Be Fluent in Two Cultures

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 19 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Sarah Yang, the teenage child of Korean immigrants, has wrestled with racism, identity, and intergenerational culture clash.

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40 Days on Anti Racism: The Only Brown Person in the Room

Published On: October 26, 2023

Day 18 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Diane Dwarka hopes that, as time moves on, racialized people who choose to be members of the United Church will be fully accepted and not treated as guests or visitors.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: The Way You Use Language Is the Way of Your Life

Published On: October 19, 2023

Day 17 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Ibi Soqluman (Chuan) points out that “It’s just a joke—don’t take it so seriously” is an unacceptable response to racist language and systemic racism.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Carving Out a Space in the Church

Published On: October 19, 2023

Day 16 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Shane Goldie, wearing both a minister’s hat and the hat of a Two-Spirit Indigenous person in the world today is not a journey for the faint of heart.

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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Learning to Challenge My White Privilege

Published On: October 19, 2023

Day 15 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: What Katherine Brittain has learned most of all about White privilege is that White people have an obligation to keep showing up without trying to make things “better.”

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